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Alix Ohlin
Ohlin in 2019
Ohlin in 2019
BornMontreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationWriter
Period2000s-present
Notable worksInside
Website
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Alix Ohlin is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. She was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a recipient of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature for her short story collection, We Want What We Want.[1]

Biography

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On January 1, 2018, Ohlin became the chair of the University of British Columbia's creative writing program. In addition to her appointment as chair, Ohlin also joined the program as an associate professor where she specializes in teaching fiction, screenwriting, and environmental writing, as well as serving as a mentor to younger writers.[2] She led the transition of the Creative Writing Program into the School of Creative Writing, and the establishment of an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.[3] In July 2022, Ohlin completed her term as Director, and now continues to teach and write within the School of Creative Writing.[3]

Previously, Ohlin taught at McGill University as the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence for 2016–17. Ohlin was also an English professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[4] in North Carolina, and has taught writing at the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She taught and worked at Portsmouth Abbey School, in Rhode Island, as writer-in-residence from the fall of 2002 through the spring of 2004.

Ohlin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an English and American Literature and Language degree in 1992 and earned a master's in fine arts degree in writing from the Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas at Austin in 2001.[2]

Ohlin published her debut novel The Missing Person in 2006, and followed up with the short story collection Babylon and Other Stories in 2007. Her second novel, Inside, and her second short story collection, Signs and Wonders, were both published on the same day in 2012.[5] Inside was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[6]

Her newest novel, Dual Citizens, was published in 2019.[7] It was shortlisted for the 2019 Giller Prize,[8] the 2019 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[9] and the 2020 ReLit Award for fiction.[10]

Her short story collection We Want What We Want received the Lambda Literary Award for bisexual fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[11] and the 2022 ReLit Award for short fiction.[12]

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • The Missing Person (2006, ISBN 9781400031382)
  • Inside (2012, ISBN 9780307596925)
  • Dual Citizens (2019)

Short fiction

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Collections
Stories
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Quarantine 2017 Ohlin, Alix (30 January 2017). "Quarantine". The New Yorker. 92 (47): 56–63.

Awards

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Year Title Award Result Ref.
2012 Inside Giller Prize Shortlist [13][14][15]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist [16]
2019 Dual Citizens Giller Prize Shortlist [17]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist [18]
2021 We Want What We Want Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlist [19]
2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction Winner [20]

References

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  1. ^ "2022 Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Alix Ohlin named new chair of creative writing program". UBC News. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Director farewell letter from Professor Alix Ohlin". Creative Writing. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  4. ^ Dean Bakopoulos, "On Not Letting Go: An Interview with Alix Ohlin". Fiction Writers Review, 30 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Montreal-born novelist Alix Ohlin goes deep Inside" Archived 12 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Calgary Herald, 10 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Scotiabank Giller Prize short list announced". Toronto Star, 1 October 2012.
  7. ^ "28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.
  8. ^ Deborah Dundas, "Michael Crummey, Ian Williams are in, Margaret Atwood and André Alexis are out on Giller Prize short list". Toronto Star, September 30, 2019.
  9. ^ "André Alexis, Michael Crummey shortlisted for $50K Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". CBC Books, September 24, 2019.
  10. ^ "38 books shortlisted for 2020 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 27, 2021.
  11. ^ Deborah Dundas, "‘May the force be with you’: Five finalists for the first Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize announced". Toronto Star, September 29, 2021.
  12. ^ "Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 9, 2022.
  13. ^ "Awards: Scotiabank Giller; Governor General's". Shelf Awareness. 9 October 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  14. ^ Truax, Emma. "2012 Finalists". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  15. ^ Irish, Paul (1 October 2012). "Scotiabank Giller Prize short list announced". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  16. ^ Medley, Mark (11 July 2012). "Tamas Dobozy wins Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Siege 13". National Post. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Awards: Giller Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  18. ^ "Andre Alexis, Tea Mutonji among finalists for $50,000 Rogers Writers' Trust fiction prize". The Toronto Star. 24 September 2019. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  19. ^ van Koeverden, Jane (3 November 2021). "Katherena Vermette, Tomson Highway and Cherie Dimaline among winners at 2021 Writers' Trust Awards". CBC. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  20. ^ Segal, Corrine (13 June 2022). "Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards!". Literary Hub. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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